by admin | Mar 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Within a week of November’s hard-fought elections, the AFL-CIO and many of its member unions had already started a new campaign. It wasn’t linked to the 2016 presidential race, or any election. It was a campaign to make sure that the politicians whom labor unions had...
by admin | Mar 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
From the International Transport Workers’ Federation: The ITF is keeping the vessel Long Beach under observation after it reportedly loaded at the Mitsui-UGC terminal at the port of Vancouver, Washington State, USA, where unionised dock workers are currently locked...
by admin | Mar 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Still reeling from last month’s court ruling that the environmental study is not flawed, the Longshoremen’s Union will appeal. At a news briefing on Tuesday, aside the Longshoremen’s Union, Seattle Mayoral candidate Steinbrueck slammed the study. “In short, the study...
by admin | Mar 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Alleging unpaid wages and repeated retaliation, McDonald’s workers in central Pennsylvania launched a surprise strike at 11 this morning. The strikers are student guest workers from Latin America and Asia, brought to the United States under the controversial J-1...
by admin | Mar 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
On February 8th, over 40 people gathered at HS Lordship’s Restaurant, in the Berkeley Marina for a surprise birthday party for Captain Josh Williams of the Local 10 drill team who turned 80 years old. The event was well attended by members of the ILWU family including...
by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Union head says Mitsui is ‘profiting from the United States’ infrastructure, natural resources and labor’ yet breaking U.S. law with its lockout VANCOUVER, WA (MARCH 5, 2013) – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 4 has filed an Unfair Labor...
by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Dozens of workers at the Bay Area’s Castlewood Country Club approved a contract on February 13 with good job security, more affordable family health care, protections against subcontracting, strong seniority rights, raises, and a substantial signing bonus. The...
by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Note: On Martin Luther King’s birthday, a community celebration has been held each year at the Local 6 hall in Oakland. This year, the event sponsors invited a recycling worker of address the large audience on January 21. The remarks below were written by recycling...
by admin | Mar 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
ILWU Coast Committeeman, Ray Ortiz, Jr. joined former San Francisco Mayor and political heavy-hitter, Willie Brown, Jr., to support the Booker T. Washington Community Service Center on January 30th in San Francisco. Mayor Brown was honored at a fundraising event for...
by admin | Mar 4, 2013 | Featured
Recycling is supposed to be good and green, but there’s plenty that’s disturbing and dangerous about this fast-growing niche in the nation’s highly-profitable $55 billion-dollar waste industry. Most recycling workers suffer from poverty wages, meager benefits,...
